The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 46

“Where are we to go now?” asked the girl, one day, when the sun seemed brighter and the wind softer than usual.

Who acts: we, girl, sun · What happens: be, ask, seem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, girl, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 go	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	cop
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girl	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 seemed	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
21	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 seemed	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 softer	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 softer	nsubj
25	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 brighter	conj
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 usual	case
27	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 softer	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	now	go property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the girl and one day			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem	past	the sun		bright property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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